The RSC have announced events to celebrate 20 years of partnership working.
LUNG will be working with their Next Generation programme and producing a new piece of Verbatim theatre, performed in Stratford later this year.
More updates to come.
Save The Dates: 16th to 19th September 2026.
Young Carers Creative Makers at the gorgeous Art House in Wakefield... a fun day about transforming winter into spring, filled with puppets, prop making, foley, and big tunes!
Thank you to our partners at Wakefield Council and Calderdale Council for riding with us!
Film #2 from our IPP pebble painting events in collaboration with UNGRIPP is here. Every pebble represents one of the 2,422 people still locked up under a sentence Parliament abolished over ten years ago. Painted with care. Carried with a call for justice.
youtu.be/FG-ir63GmWQ?...
Photo of four books lying in a square. Ian McMillan, My Sand Life, My Pebble Life. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, Calling Barnsley by Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead of Lung Theatre. A Blue Plaque for Brian Glover by Ronnie Steele. With a Paddington bookmark to the side.
Not quite first sales of the day, a family who have been in Australia for 13+ years back on a family visit. A taste of home! A signed @imcmillan.bsky.social, My Sand Life My Pebble Life, Calling Barnsley from @lungtheatre.bsky.social, local writer Ronnie Steele, and a Matt Haig novel.
#booksky
Join us next week at The Trampery in Tottenham to paint pebbles and connect with families affected by the IPP sentence. This is our 2nd event in collaboration with UNGRIPP
And please reach out to Sarah at sarah@lungtheatre.co.uk if you need help with covering travel.
🎉A big welcome to our Assistant Producer Johanna Brown.
Photo of book cover, The 56 by Gemma Wilson & Matt Woodhead of Lung Theatre. The date 11th May 1985 above the title, and The Bradford City Fire: A Testimony below. Image of a figure in the foreground back to camera, looking toward a faded football stand.
My last finished read of 2025. I got this title by @lungtheatre.bsky.social at a launch event for Calling Barnsley also by Lung Theatre. The 56 is a vivid and moving play script about the Bradford City Fire in 1985, something I remember all too well being a fan of a club not far away. 1/2
End of an era, but a win for the planet 🌍♻️
250 chairs recycled from our production of The Children’s Inquiry. #thechildrensinquirymusical
Huge thanks to the Ron Hull Group for making sustainability seamless.
Alright. We’re doing it.
LUNG’s first ever Year-End Appeal.
www.lungtheatre.co.uk/stand-with-l...
If you believe in what we do, and you can give something, we’d be really grateful.
👀 Gorgeous final look at the commissioned visual art piece for The 56 High School Packs heading to 40 schools across Bradford!
Don’t miss out! Sign up for your free pack first come, first served.
www.lungtheatre.co.uk/resources
Deadline: 15th December, 6pm.
Bradford 2025
📷 Natsha Clarke
A sneak peek on the commissioned visual art piece for The 56 High School Packs, which will be distributed to 40 schools in Bradford.
Have you signed up yet? It's free on a first come first serve basis.
You have till 15th off December, 6pm.
www.lungtheatre.co.uk/resources
Calling Barnsley Playtext now living at Barnsley Archive
Have you gotten the playtext yet?
Buy them via Waterstones
www.waterstones.com/book/calling...
#Callingbarnsley #playtext #barnsley #barnsleyisbrill
LOCO PARENTIS has dropped!
In the making since February 2025, this card game is designed to bring laughter, connection, AND competition to families, whatever they may look like. We can't wait to share more with you as we send it out into the world!
#watchthisspace
#ChildrensInquiryLegacy
#cardgame
Calling all High Schools in Bradford. The Bradford City Fire must never be forgotten. We seek to pass down the memories and stories of the day to the next generation through compassion, care and creativity.
www.lungtheatre.co.uk/resources
LUNG is proud to join a sector-wide commitment to support parents and carers in the performing arts by committing to the PiPA Pledge.
Last Friday we launched The Calling Barnsley playtext at
Barnsley Civic - what a night! Huge thanks to David Carpenter, Dean Love and Gemma Nixon for their brilliant monologue performances from the anthology.
The Calling Barnsley Playtext
www.waterstones.com/book/calling...
📸 Robling Photography
A book in a hand - Calling Barnsley by Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead. White cover with a red telephone box. Part of the project is an installation piece - follow the guide, select and dial a number for a story and listen! Soon to go on tour around the area.
Image of stage - backdrop screen with Calling Barnsley in white, and a red telephone box artwork against a yellow background. With a few chairs, tables and plants to give a 'home' feel in front for the presentations.
It was good to attend the book launch for Calling Barnsley last night.
A project by @lungtheatre.bsky.social working with all aspects of the community, collecting stories about the lives and communities of our town. The book is a collection of monologues from these tales, in store soon!
#booksky
Ticket holders will be treated to a live performance of these electric stories, an exclusive Q&A with the project creators, and a free, signed copy of the book.
Read some of our praises for our Calling Barnsley Publication. Grab your tickets and party with us on 7th November at #callingbarnsley
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📅 Friday, 7 November 2025
⏰️ 7.30pm
📍Barnsley Civic Theatre
🎟 £15 including a copy of the Book barnsleycivic.co.uk/event/callin...
The Woodhill Families Group represented by Janet walked with the United Families & Friends campaign last month to remember all those who were and are still loved and who were killed by the state.
#woodhillfamiliesgroup
Thank you to the Criminal Justice Alliance for this nomination for Woodhill!
Honoured and well chuffed!
The Children's Inquiry production legacy continues to take us in exciting directions! 🎬 We're currently filming a series of 4 training videos for social workers, bringing together the voices that matter: young people, foster carers, parents, and social workers themselves. More updates coming soon!
🚨 FLASH SALE ALERT 🚨
Our Calling Barnsley Launch is having a 50% sale from now till Oct 20th. Tickets are now at £7.50 instead of £15 including a copy of the Book
barnsleycivic.co.uk/event/callin...
📅 Friday, 7 November 2025
⏰️ 7.30pm
📍Barnsley Civic
Last week we relaunched our exhibition at the Labour Conference ‘IPP sentences - Abolished but not gone’
Thank you to @lungtheatre.bsky.social for partnering with us for this event and the ones to follow.
Film by: instagram.com/immanentproduc…
Photos by: @andyaitchison.bsky.social
We're partnering with @ungripp.bsky.social to create community painting events to support the plight of IPP prisoners leading to an installation that politicians cannot ignore.
Read it more here : www.lungtheatre.co.uk/campaigns1/i...
Film by www.immanentproductions.com
Performed by Joey Abukeze, Komal Amin and Helen Monks with Esther Ayo James
Directed by Matt Woodhead
Produced by Mark Augustyn and Camille Koosyial
Executive Producer: Dave Cribb
Cover Art: India Buxton
Commissioned by LUNG, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Salamander Street
“I just need someone to hear these words to know what it’s like for me and people like me.”
UNMUTE podcast is live, and The Book is out.
LISTEN NOW & BUY THE BOOK
(link in bio)
Content guidance: Strong language + themes some may find distressing. Recommended for ages 15+
Visit the link to read the full interview!
smk.org.uk/art-and-soci...
We're using art to make the injustice tangible: that's 2486 pebbles representing the number of IPPs still held indefinitely yet deserving of a resentence. Contact your MP to ask them what they're doing to expedite reform on IPP! Cheers!
Our collaboration with @ungripp.bsky.social kicked off this Monday at the Campaign Fringe event, held at the Labour Party Conference! Pebbles were painted, important conversations were had, and new connections made.
Video shots by www.immanentproductions.com
